The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-07-09
LoUIs1ANA,s TRUE DEMOCRACY.

1hOL 1IHNAOSAeACAs
The Monroe Bulletin changed hands
last week and Notwithstanding the
retiring editor says that it Will con-
tinue to be Democratic newspaper lis
fresh ear marks indicate that, for the
coming campaign at least, it will not
preach Democracy pure and undetiled,
but wage factional war upon all who
have the termerity to oppose it or the
faction that its editor and its numer-
Gus owners propose to train with. In
this connection, and right now, ii
might DO admissible for us TO tell the
Great Unknown who has SO recently
bounded into tho realms of Journalism
and now presides over the destinles,
elitorially, OF the Bulletin, that tactics
of that description will not win, and
that such indiscriminate aspersions as
"oflice seekers" "pharasaical denaago-
pues'' and the like hurled at opponents
in discussion is no argument. There
are not enough offices, we tell thee,
truly, TO accommodate the hosts who are
opposed 10 factions in the Democratic
party and personal and factional MIS-
government in Louisiana.
To say that we were surprised to see
the statement in the Bulletin that the
course of the Telegraph had mistified'
tho editor of the Bulletin or anybody
else, puts it very mildly, for we have
endeavored to be very plain. How
ever, we prefer to define our own posi-
ton and must deny the Bulletin that
privilege by making garbled extracts
from articles appearing in this paper.
The .syoung editor" of the Telegraph
left no such impression by the article
from which tho Bulletin took the ex-
tract as attributed to him, ii. e., that
he chad ceased TO remember that there
was a Democratic party in Louisiana.
We remember il we'll, but il is split
in twain!
But the Bulletin could not do us the
justice TO state what we added, that
the old party was still alive and in the
hearis of the people. But let US answer
our contemporaries categorical ques-
iions, and it knows what the answer
will be, for there is but ono:
"Who are these gamblers, impudent
Adventures and irresponsible specuIa-
tors who have made den OF our poif-
Teal temple?"
They arc men who traffic in Office
and who debauch the peoples SER
wants.
Who are their leaders aud where ito
they live?
Go ask Boss Houston where he and
his strikers live.
Go ask Boss Fiizpatrick-the Big
Four if you wilt-where they and
their strikers live.
They arc in the political temple and
you ought to help put them out.
Now answer us Il few questions:
We have told you where they live,
will you 60 and help put them ont
even unto Jim Houston?
Who would they not combine with ?
Are they not after the coveted spoilS
of power and pay:
1t is all very well to attempt to ridi-
cule these things and be funny, but
the States and Picayuno funny writer's
exhausted 4he fund of humor long be-
fore tho new editor of the Bulletin
ascended the tripod, and this is no fun
ny matter any how.
Discuss it with an carnestncss it de
serves, wres,le with it i'm prayer, and
we promise you, If you do not join n
faction before your next issue, Il con-
vert to tho truo Democracy of Loui-
siana!
Paranthctically, we may remark that
we arc not here to defend Gov. Mich,
oils and the Big Four. We are no
more misunderstood on that score than
our article of last Saturday mistiiied
anybody.
Have we been explicit enough:
We are sorry TO see the Ouachitn
telegram following thc City Item in